In Saudi Arabia we get a massive welfare state with a lot free from hospitals to free universities, and no income tax. Yet still many would say “the government should do more”, and “they aren’t being charitable since it is our oil”. I personally wrote a report in university on how the government’s railroad projects are underwhelming and more should be done.
When I wrote my report only Dammam Riyadh lines 1 and 2 existed.
People in the US have very low expectations of their government given that they pay taxes on everything.
US federal taxes are a farce. They’re ostensibly progressive but in reality regressive, being a sieve of legal, semi-legal, and unenforced illegal loopholes for the top ~10%.
The rail network is owned by private companies, which give priority right-of-way to freight over passenger trains, so the few extant passenger lines are wildly unreliable (despite most of them being nationalized under Amtrak). The State can and should commandeer the entire network via eminent domain.
In Saudi Arabia we get a massive welfare state with a lot free from hospitals to free universities, and no income tax. Yet still many would say “the government should do more”, and “they aren’t being charitable since it is our oil”. I personally wrote a report in university on how the government’s railroad projects are underwhelming and more should be done. When I wrote my report only Dammam Riyadh lines 1 and 2 existed.
People in the US have very low expectations of their government given that they pay taxes on everything.
US federal taxes are a farce. They’re ostensibly progressive but in reality regressive, being a sieve of legal, semi-legal, and unenforced illegal loopholes for the top ~10%.
The rail network is owned by private companies, which give priority right-of-way to freight over passenger trains, so the few extant passenger lines are wildly unreliable (despite most of them being nationalized under Amtrak). The State can and should commandeer the entire network via eminent domain.